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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryGlobal supply chains: the role of law? A role for law!International law lacks stringent mechanisms for ensuring worker protection in global supply chains. It is the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHarsh labour: bedrock of global capitalismGlobal supply chains are not benign spheres of opportunity, but tools for increasing the exploitation of labour in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDespite claims of progress, labor and environmental violations continue to plague AppleThough Apple claims that 2014 was "a year of progress," reports from labor rights groups and researchers reveal...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFree to stitch, or starve: capitalism and unfreedom in the global garment industryGrowing attention is focused on ‘modern slavery’ and forced labour in the garment industry, but broader forms of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFood retailers, market concentration and forced labourMarket concentration is driving forced labour in the food industry, as retailers’ unprecedented power allows them to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStill slaving over sugarDespite the many 19th century acts declaring the emancipation of the enslaved, there are still practices in sugar...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCapitalism’s unfree global workforceNeoliberal migration and border regimes instantiate a de facto forced labour regime. Migration is increasingly key...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryForced labour under a changing climate: droughts and debt in semi-arid IndiaClimatic change compounds the vulnerabilities and dependencies existing between households in semi-arid South Asia....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe role of labour market intermediaries in driving forced and unfree labourThere has been lots of talk about multinational corporations’ responsibility for fuelling forced labour. But what...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat has forced labour to do with poverty?Income-based measures of poverty are unreliable for determining who is most vulnerable to forced labour. More...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroducing Beyond Slavery’s month on forced labour in the global political economyBeyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their February issue exploring the political economic contexts of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan snowball sampling estimate human trafficking?
Snowball sampling is a popular method of researching hidden populations, but its limitations make it the wrong...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe rhetoric and reality of ‘ending slavery in our lifetime’‘Modern-day abolitionists’ frame their activities as part of a shared global struggle, but there is no single...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA guide to respectful reporting and writing on sex workJournalists and researchers writing about sex workers do long-lasting damage to their sources when they treat sex...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFeminism’s undeservedly bad reputation in anti-trafficking discourseThe strain of feminist thinking that promotes the rescue industry and the criminalisation of sex work springs from a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescuing the market? Comparing Agustin’s ‘Sex at the margins’ and Bales’ ‘Understanding global slavery’‘Sex at the margins’ and ‘Understanding global slavery’ are, on the surface, markedly different treatments of modern...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShilling fantasy as reality: a review of ‘Trade’ and ‘Holly’Movies glorifying the ‘rescue’ of sex workers by men posing as clients are erotic fantasies, not daringly realistic...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDomestic sex trafficking and the punitive side of anti-trafficking protectionDespite efforts to automatically label teen and youth sex workers as ‘victims’ of trafficking, and thereby prevent...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow big is the trafficking problem? The mysteries of quantificationWildly different numbers circulate about the number of trafficking victims and modern-day slaves. Victims are hard...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom HIV to trafficking: shifting frames for sex work in IndiaThe conflation of trafficking and prostitution in antitrafficking discourses not only frames all sex workers as...